Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin · 1897
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going?
Paul Gauguin · 1897
Where Do We Come From? What Are We? Where Are We Going? is an 1897–98 painting by French artist Paul Gauguin. The painting was created in Tahiti and is in the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. Viewed as a masterpiece by Gauguin, the painting is considered "a philosophical work comparable to the themes of the Gospels".
Saint Luke Drawing the Virgin
Rogier van der Weyden · c. 1435–1440
Dance at Bougival
Pierre-Auguste Renoir · 1883
Dance at Bougival is an 1883 oil-on-canvas painting by the French artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, currently in the collection of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Described as "one of the museum's most beloved works", it is one of three in a collection commissioned by Paul Durand-Ruel. It depicts a scene in the French village of Bougival, about 15 km from the center of Paris, a site utilized by many Impressionists besides Renoir including Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley, and Berthe Morisot.
The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit
1882
The Slave Ship
J. M. W. Turner · 1840
J. M. W. Turner, 1840. The Slave Ship, originally titled Slavers Throwing overboard the Dead and Dying—Typhon coming on, is a painting by the British artist J. M. W. Turner, first exhibited at The Royal Academy of Arts in 1840.
Madame Monet wearing a kimono
1876
Claude Monet, 1876. La Japonaise is an 1876 oil painting by the French Impressionist painter Claude Monet. Painted on a 231.8 cm × 142.3 cm canvas, the full-length portrait depicts a European woman in a red uchikake kimono standing in front of a wall decorated by Japanese fans. Monet's first wife Camille Doncieux modeled for the painting.
Artists
Dutch · 1606–1669 · Dutch Golden Age painting
German · 1471–1528 · German Renaissance
France · 1841–1919 · Impressionism
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland · 1828–1882
Spain · 1599–1660
Greek · 1541–1614 · Spanish Renaissance
Kingdom of Great Britain · 1775–1851
American · 1738–1815 · realism
French · 1848–1903 · Post-impressionism
Burgundian Netherlands · 1390–1464 · Early Netherlandish painting
Dutch · 1853–1890 · Post-impressionism
Artworks
Artist in his studio
Rembrandt · 1628
Band of dervishes preparing and drinking an intoxicating draft
1610
The Annunciation
1605
From the Back Window - 291
Alfred Stieglitz · 1915
Hamza Mirza Entertained
Muhammadi · 1584
Corfu: The Terrace
1909
Café scene
Crucified Christ, diocese of Salzburg, early 11th c.
1050
A German Double Pill Box
Paul Nash · 1918
Venice: I Gesuati
1909
A Kaag and a Smak in a Calm
Jan van de Cappelle · 1653
Portrait of Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625) and his family, after 1615
Peter Paul Rubens · 1650
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